Radeon R9 295x2 review

In this review we test and benchmark the R9 295x2 The R9 295x2 is the new dual-GPU monster of a graphics card from AMD. It has two fully enabled Hawaii XT GPUs and in style an exotic cooling in the form of a Hybrid cooler, meaning a combination of air and liquid cooling. The two GPU's are fully enabled on all shader processors and run up-to a cool 1018 MHz each. So that's over 12 Billion transistors, 5632 Shader processors and a good 11.5 TFLOPS of compute performance slapped onto a single PCB. Yes, AMD has just released the fastest graphics card in the world!

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I know it's annoying, but it works both ways.
If the reviews are full of AMD optimised games then people would claim they were paid off by AMD.
As long as there is a good mixture of games then it's hard to complain.

Just did a quick calculation and this would likely be around £1100 here in the UK, expensive considering you could pick up two liquid cooled 290x's for £1000, but it's not Titan Z expensive so i'm sure these will still sell well enough.

Are pump, tubes and radiator included? I didnt think so.

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#4798257 Posted on: 04/10/2014 09:28 AM
You should get even better performance with a custom block. Reason why its fast is because it has aio cooling. Slap a block on it to cool the whole card and not part of it should increase performance and stability.

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#4798369 Posted on: 04/10/2014 01:00 PM
Really nice card! Price is less than expected, and could force NV to backoff the price of the Titan Z.

How's the frame pacing with crossfire + eyefinity on the 290 series? Is it fixed hardware side or only driver side in DX11? My 2x 7970 were fast, but hell it was a stuttering mess in Eyefinity :-/

You should get even better performance with a custom block. Reason why its fast is because it has aio cooling. Slap a block on it to cool the whole card and not part of it should increase performance and stability.

Not sure the VRMs have a whole lot more to give TBH.

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#4799081 Posted on: 04/11/2014 02:14 PM
Really nice card! Price is less than expected, and could force NV to backoff the price of the Titan Z.

How's the frame pacing with crossfire + eyefinity on the 290 series? Is it fixed hardware side or only driver side in DX11? My 2x 7970 were fast, but hell it was a stuttering mess in Eyefinity :-/

Pretty good it seems .. only Skyrim is still not optimized .... ( there's still the simple method of fix v-sync and framerate )